Marguerite Churchill
26 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 26, 1910
- Died
- Jan 9, 2000 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Biography
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Marguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American film actress appearing in more than 25 films with a career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She is best known today as John Wayne's first leading lady, in The Big Trail (1930).
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She was the daughter of a producer who owned a chain of theaters, but he died when she was ten years old. She was educated in New York City at the Professional Children's School and the Theatre Guild Dramatic School. She appeared on stage and was applauded on Broadway as a leading lady when just sixteen years old. An official of the Fox Company saw her acting and gave her a contract which shortly afterwards led her to debut on screen in The Diplomats.
Churchill played leading lady to John Wayne in Howard Hawk's The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen epic and Wayne's first leading role. She appeared with Wayne the following year in Girls Demand Excitement (1931), with Spencer Tracy and George Raft in Quick Millions (1931), with Will Rogers in Ambassador Bill (1931), with Warner Oland in Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), with George O'Brien in Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), with Charles Farrell in Girl Without a Room (1933), with Ralph Bellamy in The Final Hour (1936), with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936), and with Edward Van Sloan in Dracula's Daughter (1936).
She died on January 9, 2000, aged 89, from natural causes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She was survived by her daughter, Orin.
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Marguerite Churchill: movies and TV shows
Acting (27)
- 1950 Bunco Squad
as Barbara Madison
- 1949
- 1936 Legion of Terror
as Nancy Foster
- 1936 Alibi for Murder
as Lois Allen
- 1936 The Final Hour
as Flo Russell
- 1936 Murder by an Aristocrat
as Sally Keating
- 1936 Dracula's Daughter
as Janet
- 1936 The Walking Dead
as Nancy
- 1936 Man Hunt
as Jane Carpenter
- 1935 Speed Devils
as Pat Corey
- 1935 Without Children
as Sue Cole
- 1933 Girl Without a Room
as Kay Loring
- 1932 Forgotten Commandments
as Marya Ossipoff
- 1931 Ambassador Bill
as Queen Vanya
- 1931 Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jane Withersteen
- 1931 Quick Millions
as Dorothy Stone
- 1931 Charlie Chan Carries On
as Pamela Potter
- 1931 Girls Demand Excitement
as Miriam
- 1930 The Big Trail
as Ruth Cameron
- 1930 Good Intentions
as Helen Rankin
- 1930 Born Reckless
as Rosa Beretti
- 1930 Harmony at Home
as Louise Haller
- 1929 Seven Faces
as Hélène Berthelot
- 1929 They Had to See Paris
as Opal Peters
- 1929 Pleasure Crazed
as Nora Westby
- 1929 The Valiant
as Mary Douglas
- 1929
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 2023